In the Dragon Tomb, the naked Long Jiuyyao gave off a faint, almost imperceptible trace of Heavenly Dragon Qi.
His skin had turned blood-red from congestion, and under the nourishment of those nine types of Heavenly Dragon Qi, a pure black flame burned across his entire body.
His fleshly body was the furnace.
True Dragon Blood was the fuel.
The black flames were restrained within his body, tempering all of the True Dragon Blood inside him.
Beginning from his heart, with his meridians as roads and his acupoints as gates, True Dragon Blood flowed through his entire body. As the circulation of his blood quickened, strands of pitch black blood began to appear.
The moment that strand of True Dragon Blood appeared, more and more True Dragon Blood began to manifest. Finally, after who knew how much time had passed, the dragon blood that had once been red throughout vanished.
In its place was Pitch Black True Dragon Blood, and as his ordinary dragon blood disappeared, the blood-red skin caused by congestion also faded away.
But though the blood-red skin was gone, it had turned a pure black instead. From afar, he looked as if black light were assimilating the light around him.
As his ordinary dragon blood was replaced by the hidden True Dragon Blood, the time had come to refine Heavenly Dragon Qi.
Black flames shot into the sky. As each drop of True Dragon Blood was tempered until it boiled, a wisp of pale black Dragon Qi rose and hovered above his head.
With the success of this first wisp of natal Dragon Qi, this silent war officially began.
Heavenly Dragon Qi was the foundation of the Dragon Clan's cultivation. An ordinary member of the Dragon Clan needed only a thousand wisps of natal Dragon Qi to